I haven't posted here in years but I want to make sure to post here that I'm a part of this healer strike.

I have been playing as a healer since before HW came out, when we were complaining about server sync during Titan fight. I am absolutely disliking what is being done to healers since Shadowbringers. In ShB, instead of lifting everyone to the top, AST and SCH were butchered and homogenised into what we have today, instead of improving WHM. Then EW came, SGE is (or was) what SCH was in the beginning, a "battle healer" due to its several damaging abilities, and AST got shafted again on its card system and became a WHM with shields.

We have been complaining about healer gameplay since Shadowbringers, if not earlier. It seems like every concern or plight within the class is ignored by the devs, we are told to "just go play ultimate if you want a challenge" and that's absolute bullshit. The state of healers made me dislike EW, it seems that more and more SquareEnix doesn't give a damn about healers, the players themselves, all healing classes are being dumbed down, "stupified" even, and I am willing to bet a good money that this is a conscious decision made solely to improve the experience with trusts, because with this they can advertise this MMO as "look you can play all by yourself, come here and give us money".

For the longest time ever it always seemed that only BLM gets an improved gameplay because after all that's Yoshi's favorite class, and it has been said in multiple interviews that none of the developers actually play, or main, healers. Geez, I wonder why the class is such in a sorry state after all? By all means keep giving tanks and dps more healing and shielding options, all dungeons in EW could already be done without a healer and I bet that the same will happen now.

The only content in which playing as a healer is actually fun is PvP, where each of them play differently and have a meaningful contribution to the group. Otherwise, I will be playing Dawntril as a Pictomancer, because most fo the creative and balance efforts goes straight to the new classes, do the dungeons with Trusts and leave after finishing the main story. I have lost any and all interest in playing more content due to the current state of the game